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This is the story of the author's first experience of fieldwork, when he lived with his wife for a year on a remote Polynesian island where they wanted to get "back to nature." The author begins to develop the theory that would dominate his career and research, that Polynesia was first settled by Native Americans. The two have some wonderful experiences, but while H. continually writes about how he finds his Polynesian neighbors on the island to be intelligent and in every way like himself, his
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